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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Author
Fascinating Nonfiction Stories
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist LA Times
Golden State: The Making of California
“Michael Hiltzik’s Golden State is a monumental history of California brimming with fierce national implications for today. With astonishing detail and elegant prose, Hiltzik masterfully delineates Spain's brutal conquest of Indigenous people in the early sixteenth century; the 1848 Gold Rush; the railroad revolution; the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and so much more. His accounts of Hollywood, Big Agriculture, and Silicon Valley innovation are superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation.”
—Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring Revolution
Michael's new history of California will be published on February 18, 2025.
Page-Turning Stories by an Award Winning Writer
Michael Hiltzik is an award-winning author and journalist best known for his nonfiction works. Taking on topics such as American history, science, and technology, he has intrigued the minds of readers and critics throughout the years.
You can read more of his books such as The New Deal: A Modern History, The Plot Against Social Security, and his New York Times Best-Seller, Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century.
About Michael Hiltzik
Michael has written for the Los Angeles Times for more than 30 years as an award-winning financial and political writer, foreign correspondent in Africa and Russia, investigative reporter, and technology editor. He is currently the Times’ business columnist. His seventh book, Iron Empires, is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Michael lives in Southern California.